In what appears to be a drastic deviation from the practice in the past, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, is gradually reducing the power of the Chief Coach of the senior national team, Stephen Keshi to call up players for the national duties.
President of the NFF, Amaju Melvin Pinnick, disclosed that henceforth the invitation of players for Eagles’ duties no longer lies exclusively with Keshi.
Pinnick revealed that invitation of players into the Super Eagles will now go through a process that will actively involve a brainstorming session with the technical study group headed by ex-international, Austin Okocha and the technical director of the federation, Shuaibu Amodu.
“Everything you are seeing has Keshi’s input; the only people that are not working really well now are the technical study group because this is a process. Keshi doesn’t have that liberty any more to say he wants to invite somebody from Greece,” Pinnick told footballlive.ng.


The controversy surrounding the invitation of players stemmed from Stephen Keshi’s call up to an unattached player in the domestic scene and even made the bench of the national team during the 2017 AFCONQ in Kaduna last weekend.
The NFF queried both Keshi and Captain Vincent Enyeama over issues surrounding Eagles AFCON qualifier against Chad.
Keshi was queried by the federation to explain why non-league striker Gabriel Okechukwu made the Eagles substitute bench, while Enyeama was to explain his comments regarding the safety of match venue Kaduna.
Striker Okechukwu features for non-league Water FC of Abuja and he failed to make the final cut for the U-20 World Cup in New Zealand after he was named on a 35-man provisional squad.
Pinnick however noted that if anything goes wrong, the federation won’t blame Keshi. “If anything goes wrong, Keshi will not be held responsible rather it is going to be Amodu and we have communicated that to him because he is also part of the process,” said Pinnick.

But he ll be the coach abi?
Why all these complications?

Dem don start again

May it'll work for ensuring progress to agreat high! But care should be taking in all there player's selection! Very Critical

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Nice move though. But why shielding keshi from blame?

Nice move though. But why shielding keshi from blame? Nff with its usual ambiguity.

so after all it is a slave contract as keshi cryed out..................
The coach cant even make his decisions . If the team falls, who will take the blame? Keshi or amodu or okocha or nff?

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I heard Keshi just applied to vacant CIV job..

freshdude99:
Dem don start again

I hope this is not the beginning of the usual attack on Keshi. He won AFCON, they dismantle his coaching crew, they disrupted his team for confederations cup by refusing to pay their bonuses so they will not excel. He wins bronze in CHAN, they are complaining about his dressing room team talk, as if it is not up to a coach to decide how to motivate his team. They qualify for world cup, NFF starts the campaign for a foreign coach. They ensure his world cup preparation is hampered by inadequate support and funding. Each time Keshi performs, they seem to be at hand to create some crisis for him.
Why didn't they trouble Manu Garber, why is Siasia immune from their criticism. Here is a Siasia who has had over seven months to put an U23 team together, yet to date he has no team. Why couldn't the technical director advise Manu or Amuneke.
They are using this attack on Keshi to deflect blame from them for their gross failure in the Women world cup and the U20 world cup. We get knocked out of 2 global tournaments in 24 hours in games and situation that we should have done better than we did. Why can't NFF start with that investigation and allow Keshi and his team enjoy their sweet victory over Chad.

AOB1963:

I hope this is not the beginning of the usual attack on Keshi. He won AFCON, they dismantle his coaching crew, they disrupted his team for confederations cup by refusing to pay their bonuses so they will not excel. He wins bronze in CHAN, they are complaining about his dressing room team talk, as if it is not up to a coach to decide how to motivate his team. They qualify for world cup, NFF starts the campaign for a foreign coach. They ensure his world cup preparation is hampered by inadequate support and funding. Each time Keshi performs, they seem to be at hand to create some crisis for him.
Why didn't they trouble Manu Garber, why is Siasia immune from their criticism. Here is a Siasia who has had over seven months to put an U23 team together, yet to date he has no team. Why couldn't the technical director advise Manu or Amuneke.
They are using this attack on Keshi to deflect blame from them for their gross failure in the Women world cup and the U20 world cup. We get knocked out of 2 global tournaments in 24 hours in games and situation that we should have done better than we did. Why can't NFF start with that investigation and allow Keshi and his team enjoy their sweet victory over Chad.

You just poured out my thoughts in totality. I can't agree less with your well thought out submissions, God bless

Shuaibu(hope i spelt dat right) Amodu is our technical director

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